The VAT zero-rating of basic foodstuffs is aimed at alleviating the regressivity of the tax to ensure that poor people do not ...

Chucky Hepburn's putback jumper at the buzzer helped No. 13 Louisville overcome a 15-point second-half deficit to beat ...

For more financial news, go to the News24 Business front page. January's consumer inflation rate – the first calculated according to a new basket of goods – was 3.2%. This is slightly higher than ...

Customers are shopping with us, we would just like them to put more items in the basket,” Ms Bardwell said as Woolworths unveiled a December half net profit of $741m, against a loss of $781m for ...

The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria reported a record N1.4 trillion in unsold inventories by the end of 2024 as inflation eroded demand for manufactured goods. While the recalibration of ...

Time for a two-minute break from the day. Here’s the wisdom and wit our editorial cartoonists served up this past week: This advertisement has not loaded yet.

embarked on a community-based model of nutrition literacy in order to empower tribal communities to take action in diversifying their household food basket with nutritious foods. The aim was to ...

The Reserve Bank worries the Consumers' Price Index (CPI) may not accurately reflect the level of inflation in the economy, as the basket hasn’t been fully ... Bayly showed it was overdue on updating ...

The dollar rose against a basket of currencies ... which could raise the cost of goods. Goods deflation has accounted for the slowdown in inflation. While services businesses also faced higher ...

the rupee naturally depreciates for maintaining purchasing power to equalise the price of a basket of goods across countries. The dollar has been strengthening even before Trump’s win ...

The ONS calculates inflation based on a regularly updated "basket of goods" and services that represents what households are buying. However, the main CPI figure you see in headlines is used to ...

Stats SA has shaken up the basket of goods and services used to measure consumer inflation. The products in the basket are updated periodically to better reflect shifts and trends in consumer ...